Cross-posting from stackoverflow <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48871262/kafka-broker-throwing-configexception-invalid-value-configuration-log-segment-by>
I have a single node kafka broker and single node zookeeper with the server.properties like below broker.id=0 num.network.threads=3 num.io.threads=8 socket.send.buffer.bytes=102400 socket.receive.buffer.bytes=102400 socket.request.max.bytes=104857600 log.dirs=/tmp/kafka-logs num.partitions=1 num.recovery.threads.per.data.dir=1 log.retention.hours=168 log.retention.check.interval.ms=300000 zookeeper.connect=localhost:2181 zookeeper.connection.timeout.ms=6000 num.network.threads=20 log.roll.hours=24 log.retention.bytes=107374182400 listeners=PLAINTEXT://172.36.0.72:9092 advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT://172.36.0.72:9092 The zookeeper.properties looks like below dataDir=/tmp/zookeeper clientPort=2181 maxClientCnxns=0 But whenever I am starting the broker I am getting exception like below FATAL [2018-02-19 17:01:10,772] kafka.Kafka$:[Logging$class:fatal:113] - [main] - org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigException: Invalid value 10737418240 for configuration log.segment.bytes: Not a number of type INT at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef.parseType(ConfigDef.java:670) at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef.parse(ConfigDef.java:418) at org.apache.kafka.common.config.AbstractConfig.<init>(AbstractConfig.java:55) at kafka.server.KafkaConfig.<init>(KafkaConfig.scala:759) at kafka.server.KafkaConfig$.fromProps(KafkaConfig.scala:743) at kafka.server.KafkaConfig$.fromProps(KafkaConfig.scala:740) at kafka.server.KafkaServerStartable$.fromProps(KafkaServerStartable.scala:28) at kafka.Kafka$.main(Kafka.scala:58) at kafka.Kafka.main(Kafka.scala) Kafka Server 0.10.1 running on Ubuntu 14. Can someone let me know what is going wrong?